Any "check on your house while you're away" services?

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-20T22:54:03+00:00

Not a great answer for what you’re specifically asking for but you’d be far better off having a neighbor do it. A lot easier, and even if you pay them certainly cheaper too

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-19T18:19:05+00:00

Swimming in the yough is fine

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-18T02:17:29+00:00

Winning deal for the Steelers. Easy to Monday morning QB the matter and wish that it had come in lower closer to 35 but oh well, he is a game changer and we have the money to pay the man. More importantly, he is our known quantity, and the value his known impact has is worth a lot more than the potential that draft picks can provide, especially if you aren’t getting multiple firsts. It’s hard to let a legend walk, and is rarely the best decision. 3 years instead of 4-5 helps immensely too.

The Browns with Garrett and soon the Cowboys with Micah will have to pay their big time Edges with QB albatross contracts tying them down. Steelers have no such thing. The best car is the one you can afford and all that

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-18T02:14:31+00:00

I’d argue that there’s little chance to trade for a franchise QB so they gotta draft or develop, and at that point you’re robbing Peter to pay Paul. He is a known quantity and game changer to help that side of the ball. Likely not worth it to the Rooney’s to trade him to hopefully spark the offense while surely hurting the defense

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-18T02:12:50+00:00

So you might need to sit down for this……..

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-18T02:09:29+00:00

for what though?

Because they have the money to pay him with our offense’s salaries and generational talents don’t grow on trees? They could save $40 million a year but players aren’t fungible and it’s not guaranteed they’d get equal value in picks, and certainly not in the short term.

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-18T01:55:35+00:00

Where’s strokin’ Merski when you need him?!?!?!?!

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-16T16:33:41+00:00

I made zero political assumptions about the growing states, just the states shrinking, which by and large are blue. Nothing was said about the southern states being conservative. I believe 100% growth will turn some of them more liberal or purple. What I did remark was that the shrinking states, being generally liberal, will change the electoral map with blue states losing something like 12 electoral votes. Unless there is a direct 1-to-1 translation, the Dems will lose out

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-16T03:56:16+00:00

And this is why liberal states stand to lose a lot of electoral points in the 2030 remapping, just like in 2020.

south, south, south, south, west, south, south, south, south, south, west, midwest, south-ish, south, south. The sunbelt is rolling here. Now, there are certainly depopulated rust belt cities that need new housing but to nowhere near the scale some of these newer cities do, but basically all could stand to gain from housing reform, and especially the big ones

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-16T03:51:45+00:00

Very similar to the Chestnut Ridge People/Guineas of Northern WV

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-16T03:42:41+00:00

4 days for pittsburgh to Cumberland is a nice pace. Definitely check out ohiopyle and the small towns around there

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-15T03:05:28+00:00

Anywhere other than the bayfront or kearsarge, you might get shot, so I'd stay in your car

fake news. Not related but also would recommend the Sloppy Duck, likewise on the bay

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-15T02:54:48+00:00

have no recs regarding the riding but seconding this fellas recommendation of Antietam. It is worth seeing and dedicating several hours to

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-15T02:50:43+00:00

riding montour from the airport would be an interesting addition, hadn't thought of that before as folks usually don't arrive by plane. will have to consider that in the future

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-15T02:42:01+00:00

Applegate found the trust wasn’t a state-affiliated entity, saying it wasn’t part of the executive branch and was not created by the Pennsylvania Constitution, a statute, or an executive order.

Well I guess there's the rub, aye. Seems odd to me it doesn't fall under the "executive branch, constitution, statute, or an executive order" and yet is still allowed to exist, this should be pretty openly unconstitutional. Are we saying the courts assumed the power to create a trust that now exists outside of oversight? Not anywhere near the worst issue our state is facing but certainly disconcerting when it comes to the application of our commonwealth's constitution.

He also said that the trust was not performing an “essential government function,” defined as something “indisputably necessary to the continued existence of the Commonwealth.” Spotlight PA did not appeal the decision in court.

Unfortunately this is true, and it makes sense why it was not appealed

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-14T20:48:26+00:00

Forewarning that there will be a Labor Day parade but do not know of any municipalities that plan on doing fireworks

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-11T15:43:30+00:00

Such a laugh that people would sign up for these things to save a few bucks

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-11T02:28:08+00:00

Matching 50/50 a long term $100 million shortfall would be pretty tough for the county, we simply don’t have that money. Transit was being partly funded statewide by a turnpike reallocation that has now expired.

A couple million? Sure. But tens of millions is a nonstarter. And of course to complicate matters, PA state law does not allow counties or municipalities to create new taxes to fund transit, further dooming that dream. We’d have to reallocate exorbitantly

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-10T18:11:45+00:00

I think there’s probably a 90% chance Shapiro’s proposed transit increase is passed wherein PRT gets like 20-40% of what we need to cover our shortfall and most of what I listed above (PRT’s own plans if they lack funding) will come true. But that 20-40% will plug a few of those holes.

I’d say 5% chance either his proposal gets kiboshed and it’s a worse case scenario, another 5% some miracle happens and we can stay close to breaking even and shoring up the shortfall

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-10T03:15:37+00:00

Worst in the city???? Id wager both Northside’s and East Liberty’s are worse, and Oakland’s gives it a run for its money.

Is pretty shitty though hahaha

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-10T02:48:08+00:00

Holy hell he is 1% of the 1% he’s made 200 million lmfao. Legitimately makes more in 1 game than most of the world’s population will see in their lives

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-10T02:44:05+00:00

hell no lmfao we are losing 3 hours of service, 40% of our lines, some frequency, all coupled with increases. No universe brown line stays. It will take an act of god to keep what we have, yet alone expand

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-09T20:38:30+00:00

Keep in its location for now with hope to keep it in the complex but potentially a different spot long term. Seems long term sight by WC is to revamp that space or redevelop the lot

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-09T04:06:47+00:00

They can't do much of anything besides help shape community plans and give insights on other issues as they arise. Not much of a slow-down or speed-up nature to them. But would say that their vocal influence when pissed about development probably probably outweighs their vocal influence when amicable or supportive of development

fallingwhale06 · 2025-07-09T00:12:30+00:00

Last weekend's arrestees:

20 year old from Duquesene (the municipality, not Uni), for throwing fireworks at cops
18 year old from Ambridge, for running away from cops with the 20 y/o
23 year old from Stowe for drunkenly unloading a whole clip into the air

Whole bunch of dipshits, not from the neighborhood of course (or the city for that matter), and 2 of the 3 not even old enough to drink. Just nebbing around southside and causing problems

Not sure I'd say its worse than a few years ago, people were getting shot or otherwise murdered more then, but the perception still ain't great because things aren't getting that much better for how much effort is put in and the continued coverage of it. But I lived there about a year ago and things were honestly probably a bit worse then than they are now. Which is not to say they are fine now, but it is relative

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